Playing 100-200 with 25 antes. Currently 9 players at the table so pots are 525 before cards are dealt.
Seat 5 raises to 500 and we call from the button with AJ. Flop comes 599. Doubtful that hit him but he bets 600. We call to see what he does on the turn and hopefully hit an A or J. Turn comes 8 and he bets 1300. All bad things. We fold.
Seat 4 bets 525 and seats 5 and 7 call. We call from bb with K5o and the four of us see 467 flop with 2 spades. Open ended straight draw that likely didn't hit others. We check though hoping to see a cheap card. Seat 4 bets 1600. Hmmmm. If others call we will as the pot odds will be good. Seat 5 raises to 3900. Seat 7 folds and so do we. Far too much for us on a 32% or less draw, particularly with Seat 4 still behind us to act. Seat 4 pushes all in and they are both in with cards up. One flopped a set with 44 and the other has a straight draw, flush draw and pair with 78s. Turn and river were both jacks so we would have missed. The guy with pocket fours takes it down with his full house.
Seat 5 bet 525 and we call with Q7s from small blind. Bb calls and flop comes 57A. We check and seat 5 bets 800. Hmmm - pot is big enough to spend 800 looking for a second pair or set on the turn. We call and bb calls. Turn comes Tc. We check and seat 5 bets 2200. Big bet and not sure what he has. Maybe an A or a big pocket pair and clearly not afraid of us having an ace. Either way, we fold.
We limp from seat 4 with 33. Seat 6 calls and seat 8 raises to 600. The blinds fold and its on is. Seat 6 tends to call hands down and is pretty aggressive. In a race, we are likely a slight favorite and that's probably what this would be, but let's not hope to race with 33. We call and seat 6 calls. The flop comes 48Q with 2 clubs. No good. We check and they both check. Free card. Turn comes 3s! It's the perfect time to bet because the post flop checks make it look like we are trying to buy the pot. We bet 1000 and seat 6 calls but unfortunately seat 8 folds. The river comes Jh. We bet 2600 and he calls and mucks his hand when he sees the set of tres.
Seat 7 raises to 500 and we call in the Sb with KTh. Bb calls and flop comes 5QK with 2 clubs. We check assuming someone behind us will bet but they both check and the 9c turns putting a flush and a straight on the board. Oiy! That's the danger of slow play. We bet 1100 and seat 7 calls. The river comes 8d. Seems like a rag. We bet 1500 and he calls and mucks when we show our cards.
We briefly play a few small hands that we discard quickly and round 5 ends. Now in 6 - Playing 150-300 with 25 antes so pots are 675 before cards are dealt.
Seat 5 bets 650 and seat 6 raises to 4500. We are in seat 8 with 99 and ask to see how many chips he has left as he seems to be hiding them. 150. Yep, he didn't want to have people think he was all in. Hmmmm. We call and everyone else folds. Doesn't matter what the flop is, the last 150 will go in. Nonetheless, flop is fantastic - 39A. We hit a set. He shows AK. The turn is a 6 and he's drawing dead when he hits his ace on the river. Our set of 9s beats his aces and kings. Bye bye.
We raise to 650 in seat 5 with 55 and get calls from seat 7 and the bb. Flop comes 4TQ. Bb checks and we bet 1000 hoping to purchase it. Unfortunately seat 7 calls. The turn comes J and we check. He bets 3500 and we lay it down.
In seat 3 we raise to 700 with JQh and seat 6 re-raises to 2300. Everyone else folds. Hmmmm. It's 1600 to call and there's about 3700 in the pot. He has more chips than we do, so if we hit, the sky's the limit. We call. Flop comes 236 with 2 spades and no hearts. We check. He bets 2800. We fold.
Unfortunately the woman to my left (yep - two tables in a row) has about 6000 in chips. We have to know that she could push all in at any time which makes it tough to play a lot of hands we would like to play (eg 78d).
After a good run and then losing small pieces of our stack quite a few times, we finish round 6 with just over 40000 in chips. That puts us in third at our table but a lot of people have already left the building. Feeling good.
All the best,
Zen Donkey
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